B-Sides Vol. 1 This week we forcibly ejected 50 Shades of Grey, and instead opted to give the “other guys” a chance. In ‘Off the Shelf’ we looked at Spione, Enemy, Sake Bomb, Shanghai 13 and For Love’s Sake. Our highlights of the week are The Theory of Everything, Big […]
Gaku Hamada
Sake Bomb (2013): far lovelier than a film about racism has any right being (Review)
The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck and God in a Coin Locker (Review)
Director Yoshihiro Nakamura came to prominence with his 2009 with Fish Story, since then the prolific director has gone on to direct a further 4 features, with 3 more projects in the post-production phase. Back in 2007, the director adapted Kotaro Isaka’s novel, the unwieldy piece entitled [the] foreign duck, […]